the issue is also the national defense reauthorization act. for the first time 51 years, congress may not pass this resolution. that further complicates what we are trying to do here. >> of alternate measures for the budget are adopted, would are the implications? will serve programs be cut back severely? that's not initially. we're going to make sure that our forces are ready to deploy and maintain our presence. that will remain true. the way i look at sequestration and i have said this, for about 3-4 years, it creates a readiness problem. you cannot shed infrastructure and reduce weapons systems early in that. . the only place you can go to get the money is in readiness training. is that the depth of the cut where we begin to lose that that debt. we still have 12 men on the team, but only about eight of them are trained away we wanted to be trained in order to be competitive. we only havend, eight players, not 12. >> two more afghanistan questions. the u.s. has been encouraging what is the-- actual no turning back time that you need, assumin